Josef Horntrich

Josef Horntrich (born November 29, 1930 in Ketzelsdorf (Koclířov) near Zwittau , Czechoslovakia ; † September 25, 2017 in Cottbus ) was a German surgeon in Cottbus.

Life

Expelled from the Sudetenland by the Czechs in 1945 , Horntrich's family fled to Niederlausitz . After graduating from high school in Herzberg (Elster) , he studied medicine at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg from 1950 to 1956 . At that time, Horntrich was a liaison student of the Catholic student community. After the state examination, he went to Ernst-Rulo Welcker at the Cottbus district hospital , which at that time had more than 300 beds and an enormous range of operations. In 1957 he was awarded a Dr. med.PhD. He quickly developed into an excellent surgeon and immediately after receiving his specialist certification he became senior physician and “right hand” of the boss. In the 1950s, both developed a system of surgical performance recording and quality assurance for the hospitals in the Cottbus district . Due to the continuously collected data, Welcker and Horntrich set a minimum quantity regulation, e.g. B. in gastric resections. This "Cottbus system" formed an important basis for the development of a uniform system of performance recording and quality assurance using the WHO documentation ( ICD-10 , international cataloging principles ) at the Charité under the leadership of Helmut Wolff , as it is still used throughout Germany today. The scientific activities of Horntrich in the context of this work and in the field of clinical research found expression in more than 70 publications. The PhD B to Dr. sc. med. took place in 1988.

Before Welcker retired in 1970, he had split the clinic and put Christian Horntrich, who was not a party, as chief physician at the surgical clinic and Klaus Welz as head of the trauma surgery clinic. Through the systematic development of visceral, vascular, pediatric and thoracic surgery as well as surgical intensive therapy as departments of the surgical clinic, Horntrich consistently counteracted the fragmentation of surgery. The surgical advanced training assistants, who were able to acquire basic skills in all subspecialties right up to the specialist in general surgery, benefited from this. At the time of the change and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Horntrich also took over the post of Medical Director in 1990 . He initiated the renaming of the district hospital in Carl-Thiem-Klinikum Cottbus and made it the largest, professionally and economically established hospital in Brandenburg . In 1996 the surgical clinic had 194 beds. In addition, Horntrich was a non-party member of the city parliament. During the entire GDR period he worked in the parish council of Cottbus, in the diocesan council of the Görlitz diocese and in the German Caritas Association . Until 1999 medical director , he operated the recognition of the CTK as a teaching hospital of the Charité. He was denied a professorship.

Honors

• Patriotic Order of Merit
• Senior Medical Council (GDR)
• New Year's Order
• Medal of Honor of the City of Cottbus (1996)

See also

• Expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia

literature

• Ingo Gastinger: Senior Medical Officer Dr. sc. med. Josef Horntrich (1930–2017) . Chirurgische Allgemeine , Volume 18, Issue 10 (2017), p. 450.

Web links

• Obituaries

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: Investigations on the diagnostic significance of the standing ECG in orthostatic symptom complex .
2. ↑ The benign stenosis of the father's papilla under pathogenetic, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects .